• General Notes

  PIERS DE MAULEY the Fourth, LORD MAULEY, son and heir. He was born 10 March 1280/1, at Mulgrave Castle, and baptized the ninth day after his birth in the chapel there by the Prior of Grosmont. On the death, s.p., of his uncle Gilbert, Lord Gaunt,7 March 1297/8, he was found to be one of his heirs, and on 20 July 1302, having rendered homage, he was given his purparty of the inheritance. On 3 May 1303 he was a witness to a charter granted by the Prince of Wales at Durham. He was knighted, with Prince Edward, 22 May 1306, at Westminster, and accompanied him in his expeditioti to Scotland. On 28 September 1309 the escheator beyond Trent was ordered to deliver to him his father's lands as he had rendered homage. In 1310 he appeared before the chapter of Beverley, asking that his servants. who had broken St. John's peace, might be absolved from excommunication. He was summoned for military service against the Scots in 1309, and again in 1310 and subsequent years, and was summoned to Parliament from 26 October 1309 to 22 January 1335/6. On 15 February 1311/2 he was summoned to a Council at York. On 16 April 1313 he was absolved by the Archbishop of York for incest with Aline, daughter of Sir Thomas de Furnival, his wife's sister, on condition that he paid 100 marks to the fabric of York Minster; and on 16 October he was pardoned with others, adherents of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for the death of Gavaston. On 6 January 1314/5 he was appointed one of the Wardens and Captains of the northern parts of England against the Scots, and was ordered to remain in the Marches for the defence thereof against the Scots. In 1316 he and others were charged with robbing the prior of Watton; and in this year he was found to be lord of Ascot, co. Oxford. He is styled one of the Majores Barones in 1318, and on 16 December was empowered to raise and arm all his men and tenants, presumably for the Scottish war. He seems to have separated himself from the Lancastrian party circa 1321, being ordered on 30 January 1320/1 to avoid illegal assemblies, and in November to abstain from the meeting of 'Good Peers' at Doncaster. On 6 February 1321/2 he was ordered to raise as many men-at-arms as he could and be ready to march with them to the King, in whose service also he was going to Scotland in August. In November 1322 he was a mainpernor for the widow of the rebel Bartholomew Badlesmere, then in the Tower; and in December a licence was granted for John de Mauley, who had acquired without licence from him, described as Piers de Mauley, the elder, the castle and manor of Mulgrave and other property in Yorkshire, to regrant the same to him in fee. On 4 April 1323 the Archbishop of York issued an order for his purgation, a charge of adultery with Alice Deyvill having been made against him. In May 1324 he was summoned to the Great Council at Westminster. In August he was ordered to be ready to serve in Gascony, and in December and again in February and May following was ordered to Portsmouth for this service, from which he was discharged in July 1325. On 10 June 1324, as Piers de Mauley the Fourth, lord of Mulgrave, he released to Sir William de Clif, clerk, a messuage in London which he had inherited from his uncle Stephen. In June 1325 he is mentioned as having been outlawed for forest trespass in Essex, but he must have purged his offence, for he was summoned to a Council again in October. On 2 August 1326 he was ordered to repair to his castle at Mulgrave to assist in the array. On 4 January 1327/8 the Archbishop of York decreed penance for his adultery with Sara de London. In March 1331/2 he had licence to grant the manor and town of Doncaster and the advowson of Rossington to John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, for life, with remainder toPiers le quynt and Margaret his wife in fee tail, and inNovember 1332 to grant 60 knights' fees to his son Piers in fees imple, with the reversion of Hexthorpe and other manors. From about this time he appears to have retired from public affairs, though he was summoned to a Council at York on 20 August 1335, and to Parliament in January following. In 1340 he had a confirmation of his pardon for debts to the Crown from 1309. On 23 May 1348, as Piers de Mauley le quart, he had licence to enfeoff Sir Robert de Mauley of certain manors.
  
  He married, before 1309, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas DEFURNIVAL. He probably died soon after 23 May 1348. [Complete Peerage VIII:562-5, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
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  Abbrev: AFN:
  Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Family
  Abbrev: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Family
  Author: Jim Weber
  Title: Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650
  Abbrev: Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New
  Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
  Publication: Genealogical Publishing, Inc. Sixth Edition, 1988
  

Details of Piers' family with Eleanor de Furnival